Welcome to this year's 46th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter forthe Debian community. Members of the Debian-Edu sub-project have[1]proposed codenames for the upcoming Skolelinux release such asTerra, Tellus and Oslo. Adrian von Bidder was [2]looking for very oldDebian installation images. Many can still be found on[3]ibiblio.org.

Status of Big Endian ARM Port. Lennert Buytenhek [4]reported that thebig endian [5]ARM port has seen steady progress in the recent weeks.The sarge distribution is nearly rebuilt and two build daemons areworking on the unstable distribution, both of which are available froma separate [6]server.

Travel Sponsorship for Debian Conference. Andreas Schuldei [7]offeredactive Debian people limited travel sponsorship if they can't affordthe entire trip. In order to be able to plan the budget he asked thoseto [8]register in time. A committee will later decide about thesponsoring options.

Oldenburg DevJam Meeting Report. Arnaud Vandyck [9]reported thatseveral Java people from different distributions have met at the[10]DevJam for the first time. Developers from different distributionsand upstream packages have [11]discussed the state and development ofthe free Java toolchain.

Automatic Clam AntiVirus Database Updates. Marc Haber [12]announcedthat a script checks every 30 minutes if new virus patterns have beenreleased and rebuilds the virus database for [13]Clam AntiVirus on the[14]volatile host if necessary. If all tests are passed automaticallypackages will be moved into the volatile archive. Older packages areautomatically removed.

Debian-Installer Etch Beta 1. Joey Hess [15]announced the first etchbeta release of the [16]debian-installer and explained why the releasetook so long. The most time-consuming problem was chasing recentlyintroduced bugs in various packages the installer depends on. Dailybuilding installer images only rarely result in working images, whichneeds to be improved.

Mozilla Public License 1.1. Fathi Boudra [17]sought cover for theSugarCRM [18]license which is based on the [19]Mozilla Public License1.1 (MPL). Matthew Garrett [20]reported that various people believethat the MPL alone is non-free, however, Mozilla is being[21]relicensed under the [22]GNU GPL and, hence, stays in the mainarchive.

FOSDEM: Call for Talks. Wouter Verhelst [23]called for talks for theDebian room at the upcoming [24]FOSDEM conference that will take placeon February 25th and 26th, 2006 in Brussels, Belgium. The talks shouldcover a technical issue and aimed towards people familiar with theDebian project.

October Debian-Installer Meeting. Christian Perrier [29]published the[30]minutes of the sixth [31]Debian-Installer team meeting held inOctober. The progress on the GTK installer has been amazing and allattendees agreed to make it available as soon as possible. Switchingto [32]udev became a major goal for the future.

Development Package Dependencies. Gabor Gombas [33]noticed problems independencies of development packages since linking statically anddynamically requires different packages and because some packagesconflict with each other since they provide the same files. RussAllbery [34]explained that the include file path is part of theprogramming interface of the Kerberos implementation.

Maintaining Basic Network Utilities. Noah Meyerhans [35]wondered howto best continue maintaining the iputils package that provides basicnetwork utilities such as [36]ping since the pristine package isLinux-specific and doesn't compile or work on the [37]Hurd or[38]kFreeBSD port of Debian. An official fork may lead in the properdirection but could [39]imply that new kernel features may not besupported immediately.

Orphaned Packages. 1 package was orphaned this week and requires a newmaintainer. This makes a total of 204 orphaned packages. Many thanksto the previous maintainers who contributed to the Free Softwarecommunity. Please see the [59]WNPP pages for the full list, and pleaseadd a note to the bug report and retitle it to ITA: if you plan totake over a package.

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